Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Including never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, a behind-the-scenes look into The Beatles' acclaimed first film In March of 1964, director Ri...

In this candid memoir, actor and director Lou Antonio recounts his five decades in television, film and theater, from live television to Broadwa...

One of the most influential filmmakers of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman directed cult feature films such as Jubilee (1977) and Caravaggio (19...

The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities-from America's industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fo...

This comprehensive study of prolific British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom explores the thematic, stylistic, and intellectual consistencies runnin...

The true story of John (Joseph) Merrick--a.k.a. the Elephant Man--has captured the imagination of generations of audiences, critics, actors and ...

The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their employment in the film...

The life and work of American director John G. Avildsen is thoroughly examined in this detailed filmography and critical study. Each of the most...

'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSKH...

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In Jacques Rancire and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Rancire's writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very sa...

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polis...

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and qu...

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure ...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his groundbr...